"Tekuna Gachechiladze was among the first chefs to bring international-style fine dining to Tbilisi, and she still leads the city’s higher end food scene. At her second restaurant, Cafe Littera, she continues to play with traditional local ingredients, like the Georgian hot sauce adjika, wild mushrooms, and sunflower seed oil in dishes such as seared duck breast, fried sulguni cheese, and wild trout tartare. The restaurant is situated inside a historic home, surrounded by a beautiful garden, where many of the previous century’s Georgian writers used to live and work." - Natalie Shafrir